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Differentiation Strategies

How to STAND OUT from the competition

Vadim Kotelnikov

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Differentiation is about setting your company, product, or service apart. It distinguishes your brand from all others.

   

 

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Just being excellent is not enough. You must also be remarkable and rememberable.

Vadim Kotelnikov

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo    Business e-Coach    Innompic Games icon

 

 

Your differentiation strategy is an integrated set of action designed to produce or deliver goods or services that customers perceive as being different in ways that are important to them.

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Innompic Games

Innompic Games    Innompic Games YouTube channel   is a civilizational breakthrough and a relentless trend setter, the World's #1 in several target areas. IG Way is what makes Innompic Games so exciting. and differentiates IG from all other contests, events and shows.

 

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Two Target Audiences of Your Differentiation Strategy

You and Your Team  ❷ Your Prospects

Both you and your prospects must be clear about how the value you create is remarkably different

 

Surprise To Win

 

 

Differentiation Strategy Defined

 

Your differentiation calls for you to sell nonstandardized products to customers with unique needs.

This strategy is a synergistic set of actions designed to produce or deliver products that customers perceive as being valuably different.  >>>

Example: Business e-Coach Slogan of Business e-Coach

Slogan 'We don't teach, we inspire' differentiates  Business e-Coach Business e-Coach from traditional educational resources.  >>>

  Great Slogan: WOW Principle and 7 Features

 

Differentiation Strategy  >>  Differentiating Ideas    4 Steps    USP  >>  Communicate

Stand Out from the Competition  >>  3 Strategies

 

 

Competitive Differentiation

Competitive differentiation – the ways a business differentiates itself from its competition within a highly competitive market – can take many forms... More

Business e-Coach Slogan of Innompic Games

The slogan 'Play at home, shine globally' differentiates Innompic Games for innovators from other games. "Play at home" differentiates Internet-powered Innompics from Olympic games, while "shine globally" differentiates Innompic games from other Internet games.  >>>

 

Differentiating Idea

Your differentiating idea is your competitive mental angle... More

Love for customer quotes Vadim Kotelnikov, differentiate from compeitors, photogram Irina, pigeons

Differentiating With Different Types of People    Advices for Seth Godin

Customer Service as a Powerful Differentiator  >>  Cross-functional Customer Service

  

 

  "Don't forget that it (your product or service) is not differentiated
until the customer understands the difference."
 ~ Tom Peters

 

2 Basic Ways to Compete and Prosper in Any Market

  1. To have a strong differentiation strategy

  2. To be a low-cost producer

If you aren't different, you must have low prices.
If you have high prices, you must be different!

BE MAD

Your Logo should be:

  1. simple

  2. distinctive

  3. intuitive  >>>

Design Insights

Logo of e-Coach

Logo of Innompic Games

My personal logo

 

Differentiation Strategy and a Coherent Marketing Direction5

Positioning

Essence

KoRe 10 Tips

10 Commandments

Depositioning a Competitor

Brand Positioning

Examples

Innompic Peace Prize positioned

Noble vs. Nobel Peace Prize

Brand Management

Advantages of Strong Brands    Name    Logo Design: Kore 10 Tips

Strategic Brand Management    Brand Equity

Color Psychology in Marketing and Branding

Marketing Strategy

Creative Marketing    The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Advertising  >>  Chekclist

Winning and Retaining Customers

Winning Customers    Creating Customers

Customer Value Proposition    Unique Selling Proposition (UPS)

Competing

Sustainable Competitive Advantage    Competitive Strategy

Competing Skills    Stand Out from the Competition    Competitive War Games

Enterprise Strategy

Venture Strategies    Blue Ocean Strategy

Your People Skills

How Our Mind Works    Mental Maps    Connecting with People

Cultural Intelligence    Cross-cultural Communication

Examples

Differentiation

Coaching by Example

Innompic Games Differentiated

Logo of Business e-Coach

A Drop than grew larger that the Ocean >>  10 Success Lessons

VK Personal Branding    Kore 10 Branding Story

KoRe 10 Tips    KoRe 6 Slides

Creative Aura-based Presentation of Cimcoin Team

CimJoy >> CimJoy Guiding Principles

Brand Management

Asian Home Gourmet    Rich Dad    Coway Doongjin

Customer Value Creation

Emotional Marketing >> Steve Jobs: Sell Dreams and Emotional Benefits

Amazon    Coco Chanel    Estee Lauder    Half.com    Unisys

 

References:

  1. Differentiate or Die, Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin

  2. Extreme Management, Mark Stevens

  3. The Power of Simplicity, Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin

  4.  The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Al Ries & Jack Trout.

  5. Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, Edition 4

  6. Competitive Strategy, Michael Porter

  7. Agenda, Michael Hammer

Buzz Marketing

Differentiation – Step 1 in Building Your Brand

Differentiation – distinguishing your brand from all others – is about the life and death of your brand. It is how your brand is born and how it may die if differentiation declines.

 

 

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Innovation Is Love

Creative Marketing

How are you going to stand out from competitors?

Apart from cutting edge products you need design and implement cutting edge marketing strategies.

Yes, traditional marketing techniques can deliver average results, but "out of the box" solutions can make wonders.

Creative marketing will help you generate the results you’ve been looking for. Unique original low-cost marketing ideas can help you grow your business tremendously. Innovative marketing strategies can move your brand quickly from an intriguing concept to a household name... More

Focus on Emotional Drivers

Customer Value Proposition

Harnessing the Power of Psychology

You don't need a degree in psychology to compete successfully in the marketplace, but you do need some way to figure out the different styles of interaction different people prefer to use.

People tend to lead their decision-making process decisions with one of the four functions: intuition, thinking, feeling, and sensing. Vividly differentiated differences that are anchored to a product and engage the above functions can enhance memory of your current and prospective customers... More

Increasing Customer Value-added through Virtual Integration

"The more you do for customers, the more of their work that you undertake, the harder it is to find the line that separates you from them," writes Michael Hammer. "Companies that perform more of their customers' work in order to differentiate themselves from their competitors and earn higher margins are, in effect, integrating themselves into their customer's operations... More

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